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No. 464,801. Patented Dec. 8, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT SAMUEL F. OREILLY, OF NEHV YORK, N. Y.

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SPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,801, dated December 8, 1891.

Application filed July 16, 1891. Serial No.399,731. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. OREILLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tattooing-Machines, of which the following is a specification;

My invention relates to a tattooing-machine, the peculiar and novel construction of which is pointed out in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 represents afront elevation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section in the plane as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section in the plane y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a similar section in the plane ,2, Fig. 2.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the handle of my tattooing-machine, said handle being made hollow, so that it is adapted to form the guide for the perforating-instrument 13.

In the example shown in the drawings this instrument is composed of five needles; but it may consist only of a single needle, or the number of needles which constitute the perforating-instrument maybe changed to suit circumstances. The perforating-instrunient Bis secured to a rod 0, which is geared with an electromotor D, mounted on the tubular handle, the devices which serve to gear said motor with the rod G being made to pass through or being inclosed in the tubular handle, so that in grasping the handle the movement of the perforating-instrument is not disturbed.

Vith the handle A is combined an ink-reservoir E, through which the perforating-instrument passes, and if a reciprocating motion is imparted to said perforating-instrument its point or points are supplied with ink, which enters the perforations made in the skin by said point or points.

The ink-reservoir is provided with an extension a, which forms a guide whereby the operator is enabled to move the instrument so as to produce the required designs, and this extension also forms a gage to'regulate the depth to which the point or points of the moved in or out and the gage a can be adjusted in the required position. A thumbnut It serves to lock the tube 1) in the required position. The rod 0 is geared with the electromotor by means of a lever F, which has its fulcrum on a stud 'i, so as to produce a comparatively large stroke of the perforating-instrument.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a tubular handle, of a tubular ink-reservoir movable along the lower end of the handle and provided with a gage, means for moving the ink-reservoir on the handle to adjust the gage, and a perforatinginstrument reciprocating through the handle and ink-reservoir, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a tubular handle, ofa tubular screw-threaded ink-reservoir surrounding and movable along the lower end of the handle and having a gage, a screw-threaded tube carried by the handle and engaged with the ink-reservoir to adjust it longitudinally, and a needle reciprocating through the handle and ink-reservoir, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with a tubular handle, of a tubular screw-threaded ink-reservoir having a gage and movable longitudinally along but held against rotation 011 the handle, a screw-threaded tube swiveled to the handle and engaged with the ink-reservoir to adjust it longitudinally, and a needle reciprocating through the handle and ink-reservoir, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a tubular handle,

of a tubular ink-reservoir movable along the In testimony whereof I have hereunto set lower end of the handle and provided with a my hand in the presence of two subscribing 1o gage,'means for moving the ink-reservoir to witnesses. adjust the gage, a perforating-instrument re- 5 ciproeating through the handle and ink-res- SAMUEL O REILLY ervoir, and an eleotromotor mounted on the Witnesses: tubular handle and geared with the perfo- WV. HAUFF,

rating-instrument,substantiallyas described. E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

